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PROTECTION OF THE SEA LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1986 - SECT 17

Interpretation

  (1)   Section   3 of the Principal Act is amended ;

  (a)   by omitting " , apart from Annexes III, IV and V to it, " from the definition of " the 197 8 Protocol " in subsection (1);

  (b)   by inserting after subsection ( 1A) the following subsection :

  " (1AA) A reference in this Act to the sea near the Jervis Bay Territory shall be read as a reference to t he sea in that Territory. " ; and

  (c)   by inserting after subsection (1B) the following subsection :

  " (1BA) For the purposes of this Act, the laws of the Jervis Bay Territory shall be taken to include laws, other than this Act, in force in that Territory. " .

  (2)   Section   3 of the Principal Act is amended ;

  (a)   by omitting " III " , from the definition of " the 1973 Convention " in subsection (1);

  (b)   by omitting " and " from paragraph   ( a) of the definition of " the 1978 Pr otocol " in subsection (1); and

  (c)   by inserting after paragraph   ( a) of the definition of " the 1978 Protocol " in subsection (1) t he following paragraph:

  " (aa)   the amendments to the Protocol adopted on 5   December 1985 (a copy of the English text of which relating to the Annex of the Protocol is set out in Schedule   4 and a copy of the English text of which relating to Protocol I to the Convention is set out in Schedule   5); and " .

  (3)   Section   3 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting " , apart from Annexes IV and V, " from the definition of " the 1973 Convention " in subsection (1).



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